The answers to the clues below will have something in common.

1. Skyscraper construction unit
2. Familiar mountain cabin style
3. Popular cotton swab
4. Nuclear weapon
5. Boy/girl determiner
6. Camera setting
7. Military combat food
8. Mountain-road feature, perhaps

Answers:

1.   I - BEAM
2.  A - FRAME
3.  Q - TIP
4.  H - BOMB
5.  Y - CHROMOSOME
6.  F - STOP
7.  K - RATION
8.  S - CURVE

Credit: Paul Guttormsson - Idea
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